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Posted by on July 16, 2006, 7:29 am
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If Melandri hadn't been fighting with Pedrosa for much of the race,
would he have had a bit more tyre grip left for the last battle with
Rossi and won?
Rightly or wrongly, that's what I was thinking when I saw Rossi driving
smoothly at the front with Melandri/Pedrosa/Hayden fighting. Whether
Rossi was preserving his tyres more than the riders behind him.
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Posted by Morten Becker-Eriksen on July 16, 2006, 9:01 am
> If Melandri hadn't been fighting with Pedrosa for much of the race,
> would he have had a bit more tyre grip left for the last battle with
> Rossi and won?
If rossi qould get his Q-tires to work and not have to fight his way up,
would he have walked away with the victory?
Surly he was the one with the disadvantage, especialy on one of the
thightest tracks in the season.
> Rightly or wrongly, that's what I was thinking when I saw Rossi driving
> smoothly at the front with Melandri/Pedrosa/Hayden fighting. Whether
> Rossi was preserving his tyres more than the riders behind him.
I was impressed with Hayden and the way he managed to keep Pedrosa behind on
the last laps. He had some obvious grip problems but showed that he is a
fighter. On the other hand, he had some one to follow and the result could
have changed if he was in the lead.
/MBE
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Posted by pablo on July 16, 2006, 12:37 pm
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> If rossi qould get his Q-tires to work and not have to fight his way up,
> would he have walked away with the victory?
> Surly he was the one with the disadvantage, especialy on one of the
> thightest tracks in the season.
Anyhow, so much for the notion it's hard to overtake in Germany. The guys
did it often. In the end, all the guys in the leading group were there often
enough to put a strategy together on how to stick it out. Pedrosa seemed to
be the smoothest one with the bike, and yet he finishes fourth despite
whatever tire advantage might have resulted from that. To it looked like
they finished in the order of who simply the better rider was today. All
within .4s, mind you. These guys are so close together...
> I was impressed with Hayden and the way he managed to keep Pedrosa behind
> on the last laps.
Yeah, saving the podium not doing anything stupid. keeping hsi head like
that despite pressure in a race like today's means a lot.
Other trivia worth mentioning: if it hadn't been Roberts taking out Tamada,
but someone like Melandri taking out Roberts, we'd never hear the end of it
in this NG. In any case, racing incident, and shame those guys weren't there
to mix things up a little. Or Stoner, who could not even start because he
got a concussion falling off during the warm-up. The grid seems to have a
new king of the chuckers. Stoner has to watch it, despite his obivous huge
talent, his career is not going to be long-lived in MotoGP unless he watches
it a little. For those who are about to bring up Checa as a counter-example,
heck, he seems to have done a nice job of turning a bike and tire combo that
could not crack the top 15 into a top 10 finisher as of late. It'll be
interesting to see whether he can manage to unexpectedly sneak into the top
10 again through regularity. Ahead of Hopkins and Elias, who had an
extremely forgetable day.
...pablo
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Posted by pablo on July 16, 2006, 12:43 pm
> ... All within .4s, mind you. These guys are so close together...
Also interesting to see Pedrosa state the other guys always got him on the
brakes...
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Posted by Dr Ivan D. Reid on July 16, 2006, 1:18 pm
> For those who are about to bring up Checa as a counter-example,
> heck, he seems to have done a nice job of turning a bike and tire combo that
> could not crack the top 15 into a top 10 finisher as of late. It'll be
> interesting to see whether he can manage to unexpectedly sneak into the top
> 10 again through regularity.
Yeah, but all you had to do to score points today was to finish.
(BTDT, got the lap of honour and the $CDN100...)
--
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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
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